My partition table is fairly standard also. The only difference is that I only have a serial ATA interface on my laptop, it does not contain any IDE controllers at all. (I am not sure about the DVDRW drive - although it is possible that this could be serial ATA too).
To this end my partition table is set out as follows:
/dev/sda is my one and only 100 GB hard drive.
I have it divided up into 4 partitions, these are:
/dev/sda1 Windows NTFS
/dev/sda2 / Linux root EXT3
/dev/sda3 /home EXT3
/dev/sda4 Linux Swap
When running the set up I am asked where I wish to install Grub; and as I do not want to install grub on my MBR - as this can cause problems if my Windows install ever messes up and I need to reinstall Windows, I select to install it on my / root partition. I do this by selecting (hd0,1) as my install location. The install appears to proceed normally until the installing bootloader part and then fails with an installer crash.
Running the grub install command from the command line reveals why.
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grub> root (hd0,1)
Error 21: Selected disk does not exist
It seems from this that the version of grub supplied with Linux Mint simply cannot see my Serial ATA hard disk.
To be clear
(hd0) would be my MBR
(hd0,0) would be the first partition - which is my windows partition
(hd0,1) would be my root partition - which is where I want to install Grub
(hd0,2) would be my /home partition
(hd0,3) Is my swap partition
Is there any way to resolve this - or can Linux Mint only be installed on computers with IDE controllers?